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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ott.istar!news.istar.net!n3ott.istar!infoshare!whome!gts!not-for-mail From: bdb@hotlips.gts.net (Bruce Becker) Subject: Re: ?How to connect a M2382 to a 3/280? Message-ID: <E9620C.F9w.0.hotlips@GTS.Net> Sender: bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker) X-Newsposter: trn 4.0-test56 (2 Mar 97) Organization: G.T.S., Toronto, Ontario References: <5j294q$hc4@news.IAEhv.nl> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 23:45:48 GMT Lines: 42 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.hardware:46234 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5848 In article <5j294q$hc4@news.IAEhv.nl>, <pb0aia@iaehv.nl> wrote: | |Hello Sun hardware gurus! | |Recently I helped to clean out the cellars of a computer club here |in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. I got something to take home as thanks |for my efforts, as long as I promised never to bring it back :) |I now have a 3/280S computer (a big cabinet that has to be mounted in |a rack), a lot of cables, and a Fujitsu M2382 SMD hard disk. |I was told this combination probably did not belong to each other, |but it might work. | |I have searched on the net for information about the M2382, but all I |found was that some firm will pay $450 for it, that it has a size |of 1 GB, and I found a disktab entry for it. I could not find more info. |I have also searched for old Sun hardware info, but the only hardware |info file I could find had no information on SMD drives, only SCSI. | |The Sun has two disk controllers. One has a tag with 501124909623 on it, |and the other has 501116607914 on the tag. I have cables for both |controllers. I want to run NetBSD on this system. To which controller |can I attach the drive? Will a drive of this size work on the 3/280? |What is the difference between these controllers? Any snags while |installing NetBSD? | |I hope someone can help me to get this system going. It would be a |worthy addition to my little computer museum, which already has a |Sparcstation I and a MicroVAX II happily running NetBSD. I will worry |about the electricity bill later :) 501-1249 is a hi-speed SMD controller; it's what you want to use for the drive. SunOS will install & boot from the drive, but I don't know what support there is in NetBSD, so I'm crossposting to there... -- ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario 1 416 699 1868 a /i/ Internet: bdb@gts.org Uucp: ...!gts!bdb `\o\-e O dear, where can the matter be, When converted to energy, There's _< /_ a slight loss in parity, Johnny's so long at the fair - N. Testicle